Word: worms
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reading, but beware, they are fooling thee! They sit on the benches, and, having pricked the newspapers they read full of pin-holes, they peep out and await their chance. It soon comes, and as a cat, from behind some garden shrub, pounces upon a poor robin picking a worm from out the earth, so pounce they upon the unsuspecting student picking a crib from out his pocket. Then internally they chuckle to themselves: "Ha, ha! he, he! they thought to escape, but we're too sharp for them...
...budding love, like a venomous worm...
Doth bind him closer down to earth than yonder worm...
...Witticisms generally owe much of their effect to the occasion which produces them, and therefore, like volatile vapors, when we attempt to analyze them they evaporate. The glow-worm ceases to shine when subjected to dissection...
...rich literature. The Troubadours, whose love and chivalry found their highest expression in Dante, are the children of the Provencal, a dialect of the Romance. Their songs and stories live to-day; but the "glory has departed out of Juda," and their volumes often lie dusty and worm eaten on the shelf. They abound, however, in poetry, - legendary, amorous, humorous, - and are well worthy of perusal...